"Fwiend?" a large baby cooed to an apathetic woman. She stared at the pudgy, eager baby clapping his hands happily and swigged more vodka into her mouth. After the divorce and battle to rid the brat from her custody, she was a very unwilling mother.
"No," she sighed pushing her curly brown hair off her forehead, "you brat…" her speech began to slur as she sunk into a tattered couch.
The baby tilted his head slightly and his brown eyes narrowed as if in thought. "Fwiend?" he repeated unable to take his eyes off the decrepit woman in front of him. He toddled toward her, arms slightly outstretched. Her eyes narrowed as she slapped away from the child's eager grasp. "NO!" she yelled her nicotine yellowed eyes narrowing in anger. She wished he would just disappear. Ever since her bastard of a husband caught her and her lover, he had left and all her small town turned against her. If THAT wasn't bad enough…the guy just had to knock me up." She ranted in her head while the boy, eager to make his mother smile, continued to pester her.
She seethed and began screaming and waving a bottle in the air, "NO BOY I NEVER WANTED YOU!"
Seeing her mother erupt caused him to cry. He did not understand why mom never wanted to be his friend. Every time she came home from the liquor store, she would ignore his cries for love and slap him instead.
Hearing the wails of her child she snapped, her face began to turn bright red and her hands began to ball into fists. Until she recalled something that in her drunken state made her positive it would work.
The girl sat by the warm hearth, scattering ashes around her dress and creating dark smudges on her cheeks. Upset, her grandmother took the messy girl on her knee and told her a story. "Look at what you did you messy girl, '' the old woman chastised at the upset little girl," there is a place for naughty children like you. There is a Goblin King who takes all the little boys and girls when the grownups don't want them anymore and I'll I have to do is wish for you little bugger to disappear and turn into a goblin to hide away forever and ever." The woman stopped and sighed as the girl began to sob in fright. "I love you dear, don't worry it won't happen to you, now let's go and get you in the tub you nasty git.''
Laughing the older woman slurred and pointed her finger at the boy, "Goblin King, take this boy away from me right now!"
Light flashed and all that was left was a spot of glitter where the mother once was and a man standing holding the chubby boy in his arms. "What a disgusting creature," Jareth murmured, his miss-matched eyes twinkling at the spot where the woman once was, "Such a pity." He stared at the little boy and a smile began to grace his lips. Such a large boy would make a perfect guard for the castle.
The boy stopped his crying at he looked fascinated at the regal being in front of him. "Fwiend?" he asked reaching his little hands into the king's golden locks. Jareth began to bounce the little boy on his knee and smiled.
"Yes I'm your friend."
Author's Note: I figured this would be a good place to end Ludo's back story. However, I may right some more later. I imagine these stories just to be little glimpses at characters' lives and anyone could message me on whom to write about next. Hope you enjoy! J
